Seminars

Fall 2017

Date	Title
11/03/2017	Ultrasonic Waves and their Applications Christoph Schaal, Department of Mechanical Engineering (CSUN)
11/17/2017	The Use of Viscous Fluids for the Remediation of Soil and Groundwater Contaminants Scott Hauswirth, Department of Geological Sciences(CSUN)
12/01/2017	The problem of water spatial variation under active human landscape modification Mario Giraldo, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies(CSUN)

Spring 2017

Date	Title
02/17/2017	Frozen in Time? Using Big Data to Understand the Relationship Between Permafrost Life, Climate Change, and Astrobiology Rachael Mackelprang, Department of Biology(CSUN)
03/17/2017	Nonlinear Waves in Lattices Yannan Shen, Department of Mathematics
04/28/2017	An Overview of Global Climate Change: Science and Politics David Klein, Department of Mathematics(CSUN)

Spring 2015

Date	Title
03/27/2015	Salmonella in your salad: when a healthy diet has an unintended outcome Kerry Cooper, IRIS and Department of Biology
04/13/2015	An adhesive organelle confers competitive advantage for bacterial colonization during Rhizobium-legume symbiosis Joseph Chen, IRIS and San Francisco State University
04/24/2015	DNA, drug design and salty water - three tales of modeling with 3D-RISM Tyler Luchko, IRIS and Department of Physics and Astronomy

Fall 2014

Date	Title
10/24/2014	Putting Metallic Glasses to Work Simon Garrett, Ph.D. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry California State University, Northridge
11/07/2014	The Geometry and Physics of Viruses William Gelbart, Ph.D. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles
12/05/2014	Regression, Density Estimation, and the Uniform Laws of Large Numbers with Missing Data, and Other Good Stories Majid Mojirsheibani, Ph.D. Department of Mathematics California State University, Northridge

Spring 2014

Date	Title
2/12/2014	Signal and image analysis using the discrete spectrum of a Schrodinger Operator T.-M. Laleg-Kirati Applied Mathematics and Computational Science King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
2/21/2014	Energy for the Future Director of the Centre for Energy, Materials and Telecommunications at the National Institute of Scientific Research in Montreal, Canada
3/21/2014	How radiation influences hurricanes Robert Fovell Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences University of California, Los Angeles
4/23/2014	The Therapeutic Potential of Tumor-Targeted Salmonella David Bermudes, Department of Biology & IRIS, California State University, Northridge
4/25/2014	Increasing CO2 Measurement Accuracy Through Aerosol Validation; Work on the Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 2 Two CSUN student speakers: Matt Levy, Cord Perillo
5/05/2014	Multi-time-delay LSE-POD complementary approach applied to unsteady high Reynolds number near wake flows Vibhav Durgesh, Mechanical Engineering California State University, Northridge

Fall 2013

Date

Title

1/15/2013

Dynamics of Droplets inside a Hydrophobic Air Flow Channel of a PEM Fuel Cell under Different Conditions of Flow and Gravity

Abhijit Mukherjee Department of Mechanical Engineering, CSUN

Seminar on Climate Sciences • Spring 2013

Seminar on Climate Sciences (SPRING 2013)

Date	Title
02/14/2013	GRACE: Measuring Global Climate Change with Gravity Michael Watkins, Satellite Geodesy and Geodynamics System Group, JPL
02/14/2013	Geoengineering and Climate Intervention: What We Need to Know Riley Duren, The von Kármán Lecture Series: 2013, JPL
02/15/2013	Geoengineering and Climate Intervention: What We Need to Know Riley Duren, The von Kármán Lecture Series: 2013, JPL
04/26/2013	Milankovitch Cycles and the Earth's Climate John Baez, Department of Mathematics, UC Riverside

Seminar on Climate Sciences • Fall 2012

Seminar on Climate Sciences (FALL 2012)

Date	Title
09/21/2012	Climate Effects of Combustion and Dust Aerosols in Snow Charlie Zender, University of California, Irvine
09/28/2012	Benefits and Challenges of High Spatial Resolution in Climate Models James Kinter, Director, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmospheric Studies George Mason University
10/05/2012	The Mathematics of Paleoclimate Reconstructions Julien Emile-Geary, Department of Earth Sciences and Applied Mathematical Sciences, University of Southern California
10/12/2012	The Educational Global Climate Modeling Project (EdGCM) Mark Chandler, Columbia University, NASA/GISS
10/25/2012	Merchants of Doubt: how a handful of scientists obscured the truth from tobacco to global warming Naomi Oreskes, UC San Diego
11/02/2012	Mid-Century Climate Change in the Los Angeles Region Alex Hall, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA

Seminar on Climate Sciences • Spring 2012

Date	Title
02/14/2011	GRACE: Measuring Global Climate Change with Gravity Michael Watkins, Satellite Geodesy and Geodynamics System Group, JPL

Date

Title

02/14/2011

GRACE: Measuring Global Climate Change with Gravity

Michael Watkins, Satellite Geodesy and Geodynamics System Group, JPL

Seminar on Climate Sciences • Fall 2011

Date	Title
09/07/2011	Improving Tropical Cyclone Track Forecasts Robert Fovell, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences University of California, Los Angeles
10/07/2011	The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) Mission Annmarie Eldering , Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
11/04/2011	Improving Tropical Cyclone Track Forecasts Observations of carbon dioxide from space: What can we measure and how do we validate? Greg Osterman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
11/30/2011	Turbulence, Clouds and Climate: Tackling the Largest Uncertainty in Climate Change Projections Joao Teixeira, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
12/02/2012	Analysing NASA's satellite data: Application to Forest Fires Vicki Drake, Santa Monica College

Seminar on Climate Sciences • Spring 2011

Date	Title
02/14/2011	Tinker-Toy Model in Climate Science David Klein, IRIS and Department of Mathematics
02/21/2011	Aerosols, clouds, and climate Daniel Curtis, IRIS and Department of Chemistry
02/28/2011	Aspects of Atmospheric Radiation Cristina Cadavid, IRIS and Department of Physics/Astronomy
03/07/2011	A review of global warming Helen Cox, Sustainability Institute and Department of Geography
03/14/2011	A review of global warming, observationsand models, part 2 Helen Cox, Sustainability Institute and Department of Geography
03/21/2011	Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere Helen Cox, Sustainability Institute and Department of Geography
04/11/2011	The nature of water ice and its effects on moons and planets Burkhard Militzer, UC Berkeley
04/25/2011	Solar Irradiance Var Dora Preminger, Department of Physics & Astronomy
05/09/2011	Modeling Solar Influence on Atmospheric Circulation John Lawrence, Department of Physics & Astronomy

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